When the Berlin Wall came down, such idealists were proven right, even if their triumph was still ignored. Yet war-as-the-answer reasserted itself with remarkable rapidity.

A section of the Berlin Wall stands on display at the United Nations in New York, 2014. (Photo by Don Emmert / AFP via Getty Images) In 1990, the oil baron and philanthropist Robert Hefner III ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall on the evening of November 9, 1989 came as a complete surprise to East and West Germans, and the entire world. How did this historic moment come to be?

The fall of the Berlin Wall that separated West and East Berlin from Aug. 13, 1961, to Nov. 9, 1989, is known as the monumental event that marked the end of the Cold War. The following year Germany… ...

Lewison was leaving Berlin just as the Wall was crumbling, and remembered talking to artists who lived in the East. Besides restricted access to their families, they had few complaints.

After Fechter’s killing, it seemed beyond the realm of imagination that the Berlin Wall could ever come down. Yet, less than three decades later, it did: In November 1989, after a member of the ...

AT THE BERLIN WALL — East Germans – told they were free to travel anywhere – wept, hugged, danced and kissed in both halves of divided Berlin today after East Germany opened its borders for ...

BERLIN -- Although the Berlin Wall came down 30 years ago, suddenly it was standing again -- on the cellphone of developer Peter Kolski. The AR app recreates all 100 miles of the wall around what ...

In November the Berlin Wall will have been down for 28 years. This is as long as the period, 1961 to 1989, that it was up. Ponder that. Something that once seemed permanent was instead a blip ...

Nov. 9 is the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. It seems like yesterday when this most visible and recognizable symbol of the Cold War in Europe ceased to exist as a barrier between ...